WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1951
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Three Senior Jayhawkers To Play Final Home Game Tonight
By FORREST MILLER
Daily Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Three mainstays of the current Jayhawker basketball team will fire at the hospitalitorium baskets for the last time tonight when Kansas closes its 1950-51 home season against Iowa State.
Although not starters, Dale Engel, Myron "Sonny" Enns, and Buddy Bull play second fiddle to none when it comes to hustle and battle on the basketball court.
Enns even took the word "battle" for what it was worth when he became involved in a fractas during a game at Washington university in St. Louis during the 1948-49 season
Engel and Bull have been teammates during their entire basketball career at K.U., both having played together on the 1948 freshman team. They are the only members left of some 40 boys that played freshman basketball four years ago.
MYRON "SONNY" ENNS
MYRON "SONNY" ENNS
Ennure played on the 1946-48 and 1947-48 seasons, and the 1948-49 season until an eligibility ruling ended the season early for him.
He was seriously injured in an automobile accident during the summer of 1949 and spent last season recovering. He returned to the hardwood sport this season.
Enns, 23 years old, has his 185 pounds of basketball artist spread out over a 6-foot frame. A playing
career that started in Newton grade schools had a climax when he was named to the all-state high school basketball team during his senior year at Newton.
If all goes well, Sonny plans to graduate from the College in June and return to "the basketball capitol of Kansas" where his father, Rudy Enns, is coaching at Bethel college. Mr. Enns is considered one one the all-time athletic greats of Newton high school.
One of two married men on the squad, (the other is John Keller) Sonny is a member of Phi Delta Theta social fraternity. Other sports in which he enjoys participating include golf and volleyball.
He considers Kentucky and Okla-
lahoma A. & M. among the best
teams the Jayhawkers have faced
this season and the greatest
Along the JAYHAWKER trail
By BOB NELSON Daily Kansan Sports Editor
Clyde "Mount" Lovellette has brought national fame to himself Coach F. C. "Phog" Allen, his teammates, and to the University by being accorded a first team berth on the United Press (announced today), Collier's magazine, and The Sporting News All-America basketball teams. He is also expected to gain a first team berth on the Look Magazine and Associated Press All-America teams to be announced shortly.
Lovellette's selection on teams including such players as Bill Spivey, Kentucky; Sam Ranzino, North Carolina State; Bill Mlkvy, Temple; Bob Zawolak, St. John's; Bill Garrett, Indiana; Mel Hutchins, Brigham Young; Gale McArthur, Oklahoma A. and M.; Dick Groat, Duke, and Gene Melchiorre of Bradley is indeed quite an honor for the Indiana Hoosier Hot-shot.
Plenty of pressure will be on Lovellette tonight and in the Oklahoma A. and M. game at Stillwater Saturday night. He must now live up to the honors that have been accorded him or make those who have selected him look bad.
In his two-year Kansas career, which now includes 47 games, Lovellette has compiled one of the greatest offensive records ever achieved in major collegiate basketball.
In his sophomore year, Lovellette broke all existing Big Seven records as he scored 277 points in 12 games for a 23.0 average. The big fellow averaged 21.8 points a game in scoring 545 points over a 25-game season route to rank his scoring performance as the greatest offensive exhibition ever turned in by a major college sophomore.
His marks surpassed the sophomore accomplishments of George Mikan and Bob Kurland, two of the nation's top collegiate cagers of all-time. But many said Lovellette would slump this year.
A glance at Lovellette's offensive record this year certainly shows no slump in his point total. In 22 games, the Kansas Scoring Machine has scored 504 points for an average of 22.9 points a game. He has also averaged 22.9 points a game in scoring 252 points in 12 Big Seven encounters.
Lovellelle could break last year's 277-point total for 12 games by scoring 26 points tonight. But tonight's game matches him against "Chick" Sutherland's Iowa State Cyclones, the only team that has really given big Clyde any trouble during his Big Seven career.
In his last meeting against the Cyclones, Lovellette was outscored 18 to 13 and outhustled by Iowa State's center, Capt. Sy Wilhelmi, a 6-foot 5-inch 200-pounder who carries his rugged football ability as an end onto the basketball court.
SENIORS SONNY ENNS, BUDDY BULL, and DALE ENGEL (left to right) will play their final home basketball game tonight against Iowa State as K.U. hopes to beat the Cyclones and cinch at least a second place tie in the final Big Seven standings. A victory tonight would give the Allenmen a final 8-4 conference record.
Tonight's contest will give Lovellette a chance for revenge and an opportunity to show the homefolks he is really deserving of all the fine all-America first team honors that have been accorded him.
Lovellette's 47-game career total now reads 1049 points for a average. Clyde could become the greatest scorer in Kansas history if he bags a total of 34 more points in K.U.'s final two games. This would give him 1083 points to Charlie Black's mark of 1082 manufactured in 82 games over a four-year span.
We look for big Clyde to play two of his greatest games this week and convince all cage fans that he is deserving of his recent All-America honors even though he has been bothered by a recent offensive and defensive slump.
single player K.U. has faced is Kentucky's 7-foot center, all-American Bill Spivey.
"Kansas State should go a long way in the N.C.A.A. playoffs" says Sonny, "They have a great coach in Jack Gardner and are well supplied with reserves."
DALE "VERNIE" ENGEL
Engel, who's brother, Dean, is a star basketball player at Kansas Wesleyan university at Salina, was an all-Central Kansas conference selection the last two years of his high school days at Salina.
When "Phog" Allen shouts at "Vernie" during basketball practice, Dale Engel takes heed. Dr. Allen is far from the best when it comes to remembering names. Vern Engel played for Coach Allen many years ago and the Kansas coach tagged the name on Dale.
Dale plans to attend summer school and graduate from the School of Business with a major in accounting. The Phi Delta Theta rates the current Kentucky Wildcats above Kansas State and Oklahoma A. and M. as the best teams the Jayhawkers have faced this season.
Like his teammate Enns, the 21-year-old, 180-pound, 6-foot 1-inch Engel strings along with Kansas State in the N.C.A. playoffs and wouldn't be surprised if the Wildcats won the Kansas City tournament and play Kentucky in the finals at Minneapolis.
RUDDY "BUCKSKIN" RULL
A last minute change in the fall of 1947 brought Buddy Bull to Mt. Oread instead of Colorado A. and M. where his Columbus (Kan.) high school transcript had been sent.
Buddy's basketball career started in the sixth grade and he was elected captain of the all-Southeastern Kansas conference team in his senior year, 1947. He led the state's Class AA schools in scoring that year with a 14.3 average.
During his junior year, Columbus had a 21-3 season record and finished fourth in the state tournament. Columbus lost to Salina in the 1946 State double a tournament finale, the
K-State, Illini To Play March 14
Champaign, Ill. (U.P.)—Illinois athletic director Doug Mills announced today that the Big Ten champion Illini basketball team will meet the Big Seven champion, Kansas State, at Manhattan, Wednesday, March 14 in a post-season game to prepare both clubs for the N.C.A.A. tournament.
Tuesday's College Basketball Results
EAST
Loyola (Chi) 69, Valparaiso 67
Williams 65, Rensselaer Poly 60
Siena 58, Niagara 44
Yale 69, Holy Cross 56
Wm. and Mary 76, Georgetown 64
Brown 65, Bristol 56
MIDWEST
WEST
Rocky Mountain College 56, Idaho State 45
Montana State 70, W. Montana 56
Pacific Lutheran 48, Whitworth 43
NAIB Regional Tournament at
Terre Haute, Ind.
Terre Haute 18,
Taylor 68, Ind, Central 66
Evansville 70, Franklin 69 (o.t.)
NAIB Regional Tournament at
Wesleyan bz
J. Millinik 81. Lake Forest 60.
Champaign, Ill.
Eastern Illinois State 55, Illinois
Illinois
former's only loss of the season. Russ Davee, now head coach at Baker university, was the Columbus coach then.
Bull, who owns about a 2.0 grade average, was president of his junior class and is a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon social fraternity.
pal, Dale Engel, tells the story of how Buddy was having bad dreams after the Centenary game here in December, 1948. He was shouting, "buckskin, buckskin, buckskin," in his sleep.
“Buckskin” is the monicker that his teammates tagged on Buddy. His
The Centenary players were cowboy boots and 10-gallon hats on their trip here and Buddy must have been dreaming about them that night—a good example of how a player talks, eats, and sleeps basketball.
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